Quote Originally Posted by blitzkrieg80 View Post
disagreement aside - this sounds very interesting. it would be awesome to hear what work you've been doing in such a lesser known but important field, so please share sometime... as a separate item, since i don't expect a good mood to come from the other discussion.
Well, I've been making a B.I.G project last year that was to search for similarities in all indo-european languages and so it bought me to learn new languages(as russian and Hindi)...Through my studies I've found Lithuanian to be the closest to Hindi hence more 'ancient' than any other indo-european language...
As my speciality is Germanic languages(I think you've guessed that I'm Danish),I wanted to compare ALL actual and ancient dialects...I've found surprising things really,for example,Gothic(wich is a dead language) had a lot of remnants of Biblic hebrew(wich can be explained by the Goths having converted to Arianism)!
Pre-Roman Frisian was the most oldest of all,so old that we're still speculating on the meaning of some words coming from it!
How did I find out?
By comparing Pre-roman Frisian(or Proto-Germanic if you like) to Lithuanian and to Hindi(wich are the most ancient indo-european languages).